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1	Five successful mystery writers are meeting at the Gargoyle Hotel. At midnight, one of them will be killed. As Hercule Holmes, the world's most famous detective, can you discover the murderer, victim, weapon, location and motive before the killer strikes?
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3	''Killed Until Dead'' is a video game by Creator/{{Accolade}}, released for the Platform/{{Commodore 64}}, Platform/ZXSpectrum, Platform/AmstradCPC and Platform/AppleII.
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5	!! This game contains examples of the following tropes:
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7	* AffectionateParody: Of golden age detective mysteries.
8	* BaldOfEvil: Sydney, in those mysteries where he's the murderer. [[spoiler:And Claudia and Peter, under the same conditions.]]
9	* BlackWidow: Claudia has been married four times; all four of her husbands died in [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident freak gardening accidents]] within weeks of the marriage.
10	* BlandNameProduct: One mystery revolves around the ownership of the [=MucBurgers=] franchise.
11	* CigarChomper: Sydney always has a cigar in the corner of his mouth.
12	* FaintInShock: Agatha faints if you [[spoiler:correctly]] accuse her.
13	* FlavorText: The files on the suspects contain a large amount of humorous but irrelevant details (for example, that Sydney "[[Literature/NeroWolfe grows and eats rare orchids]]"), among which clues may be hidden.
14	* HighClassGlass: Lord Peter wears one. If you manage to rattle him while interrogating him, his monocle flies off -- but [[RuleOfFunny it still blinks when his eyes do]].
15	* HandOfDeath: If you accuse the wrong person, one shoots you.
16	* {{Leitmotif}}: Each suspect has their own, which plays when you view their file or speak to them on the telephone. Sydney's is the ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' theme, for example, and Mike's is the ''Series/PeterGunn'' theme.
17	* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: On the Spectrum, when each mystery had to be loaded from cassette.
18	* MultipleChoicePast: The five suspects' past history is different in each mystery.
19	* ParodyNames: Four of the five suspects are [[Literature/MikeHammer Mike Stammer]], [[Literature/LordPeterWimsey Lord Peter Flimsey]], [[Literature/MissMarple Agatha Maypole]], and [[Creator/SydneyGreenstreet Sydney Meanstreet]]. The odd one out is Claudia, who is named after real-life murder suspect [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Bülow Claus von Bulow]].
20	* SmokingIsGlamorous: As part of being TheVamp, Claudia always makes her appearances with a cigarette in her mouth.
21	* UniversalAdaptorCast: The five characters play different roles in 21 mysteries.
22	* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: You have until midnight, game time, to discover the murderer.

Context VideoGame / KilledUntilDead